Sports is an Art...Right??

When I first heard the reference to the translation of a phenomenological experience I immediately connected it to sports. Though it may seem like a superficial reaction and one only fueled by my love of sports and not so much fine art, it still seems very valid and pertinent to me. I watch a lot of sports on TV: basketball, football, baseball, and especially soccer. Through my experiences from watching games on television and actually going to a game at the stadium it is clear to me why TV can never quite capture the ambiance of a sports match. For me this is especially true for soccer games. So much of soccer is about the atmosphere surrounding it, everyone tries to cheer as loud and as long as possible to try and help the home team gain motivation to play better. This is combined with the numerous displays of flags, posters, confetti, streamers, and even smoke bombs. But you don't get the same experience by watching a whole bunch of rabid fans chanting and waving flags as you do when you're actually there throwing streamers on the field while trying to cover your face and mouth from the smoke of the bombs going off all around you. So having seen the difference between these i can say that there is nothing more true than this statement by Dr. Freiman about not being able to capture beauty of art, or sport, in pictures and video. That is why i will never turn down an opportunity to see a game or go to see a famous painting or monument because the first hand experience is one of a kind and cannot be replicated by anything.